Alfie Evans health update: Dad Tom Evans statement in FULL as he bids to take Alfie home

ALFIE Evans' dad has blasted doctors and said his son has been "misdiagnosed" as he plans to move his son home after Court of Appeal judges dismissed a case for the toddler to be taken to Italy for further treatment. Here is the full statement he gave to reporters outside Alder Hey Hospital on Thursday morning.

The parents of Alfie Evans, Tom Evans and Kate James, plan to meet doctors later today to discuss taking their son home, after judges refused to let them take their child to a hospital in Italy for further treatment.

Last night they kept a bedside vigil for the terminally-ill youngster who suffers from a neurological disease.

Mr Evans told reporters outside Alder Hey hospital on Thursday morning his son had been misdiagnosed and it was not a miracle his son was still alive.

The 23-month-old boy was been off life support for three days and his father said he was surviving on his own.

“Alfie is lying on the bed with one litre of oxygen to his lungs and the rest is him.

“Some people say it’s a miracle, its not a miracle its a misdiagnosis there is no miracle about this. I have had a feeling about Alfie’s condition for a long time now and I have always said I struggle to believe its a neurological disease.

“He has been off a ventilator for three days now there has been no deterioration he woke up, he’s still a little bit weak but what we ask for is to go home to stay in his life.

“Because in here there has been no neurological assessment there has been no immediate care for him no more, just nurses outside the room and leaving us inside the room.

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